Austin-based band’s idiosyncratic jazz-rock brings to
mind Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel.
Listen now via Relix, Blurt.
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Mount
Pressmore (L-R): Kris Studebaker, Danny Anderson, Thomas Shaw, Alexei Sefchick.
Photo by: Vanessa Reiser Shaw.
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“Trampoline” is the latest single from
the upcoming debut Enjoy by Mount
Pressmore
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Mount
Pressmore is currently in post-production on the music video for “Trampoline” starring
this guy!
“This is as close as we get to a pop song,” says Thomas Shaw of the Austin-based band Mount Pressmore of the band’s tune “Trampoline.” The song recalls Talking Heads and Peter
Gabriel’s more intricate moments, and is a fine example of Shaw’s musical pedigree, raised as he
was amid technical exercises, music theory, and classical recitals.
“Music was his religion,” Shaw says of his father Robert
Shaw, a famed conductor with 14 Grammy awards to his name. “His obsessions
were Bach’s ‘Mass in B minor,’ Mozart’s
‘Requiem,’ and Beethoven’s ‘Missa
Solemnis.’ This was the music I
heard most frequently as a child. Then I
heard Oscar Peterson and I was blown
away,” Shaw recalls of the
development of his own obsessions. “Then I listened to B.B. King, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, and Fela Kuti.”
Relocating to Austin after school, Shaw formed Mount Pressmore in late 2011 with drummer and fellow New York Collective School of Music
classmate, Kris Studebaker. Bassist Alexei Sefchick and guitarist Danny Anderson, both graduates of
Boston’s Berklee School of Music,
complete the quartet.
Owing to the deep history, education, and influences
of its players, Mount Pressmore’s
music is a technical revelation. Its
music straddles the jazz-rock line with a level of proficiency that brings to
mind an indie-rock Steely Dan on the
debut album Enjoy, scheduled for release on Mount Pressmore’s own Pressmore
Records on December 3rd ,
2013.
Thomas Shaw
of Mount Pressmore is available for interviews.
Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for
more information.
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Austin! See the Mount Pressmore record release show at
The Parish Underground on Sat., Dec. 7th!
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Mount Pressmore
Enjoy
(Pressmore Records, Dec. 3rd,
2013)
01. Here We Go
02. The New Regional Branch Manager
05. A Place in the Sun
06. Vice-Presidential Material
07. Interchange
08. Dawn, Bingham
09. Agnostic
10. Dakota
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Mount Pressmore Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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